Guild Wars 2

Has much changed? Might be a vague question but I don’t want to get hit in the face with new stuff and be a complete scrub all over again :S

But that’s what’s going to happen. If so much has changed that it’ll turn you into a newbie, what makes you think someone can tell you in something the length of a forum post everything you need to know?

There’s so much that’s changed, some of it major, some of it minor but could affect you, that it’s hard to even imagine where to begin.

For example, the modrem, new enemies in the new zone, are harder than almost anything in the open world prior to that. Each of the creatures have different machanics. Wolves do huge damage when flanking you, some of them place targets on you for bees to chase you around, some of them have crazy knockdowns, the husks can only be efficiently hurt by condition damage…but there’s tons of stuff like this.

If you take a break from a game, you have to put in the time to relearn it. No matter how many people answer this thread.

Since you didn’t give a last time played that makes it impossible to answer.

Check here. Go to last date you logged in and read from there.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/

Antonacci.6098:

Has much changed? Might be a vague question but I don’t want to get hit in the face with new stuff and be a complete scrub all over again :S

why you don’t want to feel a complete newb again in an MMO ? usualy thats the best and most fun part when things feel new and you need to relearn stuff.

Are people still wearing berserker gear, pretty much exclusively?

stobie.2134:

Are people still wearing berserker gear, pretty much exclusively?

yep in pve NO in PvP

also they are planing to change that in the expansion , Will it work ? we see.

The most helpful thing I find to do when getting back into a game I took a hiatus from is start a new character. This way you will learn what the game has as the game would teach a new player, introducing anything important ( including changes at the new player level that was introduced relatively recently). Also it prevents you from getting on a level 80, trying to do new things with little support form the community, and then burning out from that type of experience.